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Blizzard continues its steadfast recruitment drive to expand Overwatch as a global esport. Despite the shocking cost to secure a placement, Blizzard have just succeeded in bringing in two more teams.ESPN is reporting that deals have been si...

Du "Liquid|NuckleDu" Dang scored another Street Fighter V Capcom Pro-Tour victory this weekend, coming first at the annual DreamHack event, which took place in Montreal.NuckleDu has had little problem convincing people he is one of the worl...

Blizzard Entertainment have announced ambitious plans to open its own dedicated space for arena gaming this Fall. The so-named Blizzard Arena Los Angeles will open October 7th to coincide with the Overwatch season one playoffs.In a press re...

We ran a news story last month about renewed efforts to make video games part of the programme for the Olympic Games in the future. According to the International Olympic Committee, most games would be an ill-fit."We want to promote non-dis...

Tonight is the final of E-Sports Festival Hong Kong. Capcom have tweeted the news that the next Street Fighter V roster member will be revealed at somepoint during the game's Top 8 (As of this writing the Top 16 is underway).The tweet was a...

Psyonix revealed some new details for the upcoming release of Rocket League for the Nintendo Switch. While we knew there would be content exclusive to the port, it wasn't clear what any of it would be. That is until today, where Psyonix rev...

The co-president of the Paris Olympic bid committee has told the Associated Press that they are reaching out to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and esports representatives about the potential for competitive gaming to feature as p...

Having played Pokemon Go's raids for the past week or so I've seen some pretty amazing parents. Moms and dads alike, out there catching Pokemon either for their kids or with them, brought a smile to a lot of the groups I was with. The same ...

If you haven't been following Melee by now, you probably never will. It's been one of the most popular and hotly debated fighting games of the past decade, with many calling it "not a real fighting game" or calling for its tournaments to en...

Coaching in eSports has been a long debated concept. While players can basically keep any company they want before or after a match, during a matchup is another thing entirely. It's commonplace in sports to confer with any number ...

In an effort to crack down on toxic players and racial slurs being hurled around their game, Psyonix is going to be implementing a new auto-banning feature to Rocket League next week. Using the current reporting system an AI will look throu...

Every year at this time, the best Dota 2 teams compete for an absurd amount of money. Every year, this tournament becomes the new record-holder for highest prize pool in eSports history. And every year, I'm amazed. Amazed by the p...

With a 4-1 win over Finland, the United States of America is the 2017 World Cup champion in Rocket League. The American squad (made up of Fireburner, GarrettG, and Kronovi) won all six games it played -- going undefeated in the group stage ...

EVO 2017's download is complete, and peak numbers have been recorded for all of the main stage finals streams. How did they do? Well let's take a look. Note that all this data is just from Twitch.
Street Fighter V is on top (no su...

Last week the Overwatch League finally started to take shape. They announced their first seven teams, some of them even owned by traditional sports team owners, so it's clear people with the capital are willing to back this venture.
Blizzar...

If the most accurate description of Rocket League is "cars playing soccer"(football, fútbol, footie for our international audiences), then it's fitting that the game get a tournament that mimics soccer's most popular tourn...

Mike “Typo” Bassett is still at it.
While you were putting your pants on one leg at a time, Typo was setting world records for the Home Run Contest in Super Smash Bros. Melee. Nearly a decade ago he broke into the scene, st...

Blizzard's new War Chest program in StarCraft II is starting next week. The seasonal program will give players access to digital content over the course of three monthly phases.
The digital goodies include skins, decals, sprays, and a digit...

The International is DOTA 2's annual superbowl. It's quite simply the game's biggest, most anticipated event every year. On August 2nd, players from 25 countries will converge at the usual place: the KeyArena in Seattle. But the real story ...

A new free-to-play "platform fighter" (read: Smash Bros. clone) by members of the Project M mod for Super Smash Bros. Brawl -- the mod that aimed to make the game more like Melee because the competitive community seems to lik...

In no uncertain terms, SNK has said that it's back. No longer chained by just being a pachinko licensing lease factory, it's crafted new games, one of which already made an impact in the fighting game arena. But there's plenty of room ...

One of the coolest aspects of EVO last year was that it finally broke onto television. Although plagued by audio issues (as both ESPN commentary and native Twitch stream commentary bled over one another), it was heckin' neat to watch the St...

Echo Arena had a free weekend for Oculus Rift owners recently, and I was eager to jump in and see what it was all about. They made a point to mention how big this was going to be at this year's E3, even going so far as to promote an eS...

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Interesting Gaming Fact of the Day: In 1965 Gunpei Yokoi was hired by Nintendo as an assembly line His hobby of inventing toys caught the attention of then president Hiroshi Yokoi would later go on to head R&D1 and create the Game

Now Im not going to say this was my doing but I started shouting about WB and the charity DLC issue today and Warner Brothers changes their mind hours after I Not to the best solution but not one where they profit from it

So, I found a ridiculous article from a shitty tabloid about the latest Senran Kagura The whole article is pretty judgemental and seems intent on fanning some mild Judging by the results of the poll they posted, I’m not sure it